Dr. Manjula Krishnaswamy
Founder MembersFounder of Jeevodaya Hospice for Cancer Patients
Dr. Manjula Krishnaswamy is the founder members of Jeevodaya Hospice for Cancer Patients[1], an Indian non-profit working on palliative & cancer care and healthcare from Chennai.
Jeevodaya Hospice for Cancer Patients
Registered in Chennai in 1990 as a non-profit, non-political, non-religious charitable organisation, Jeevodaya was India's second hospice and the first of its kind in South India. From its 50-bed campus at Mathur, Manali, it gives advanced cancer patients free in-patient hospice care, pain and symptom control on WHO guidelines, counselling, dormitories for relatives and even last rites for destitute patients, with a day-care clinic in Purasawalkam extending outpatient palliative care into the city.
Jeevodaya Hospice for Cancer Patients reports the following, on its own site:
- First institution in Tamil Nadu licensed to use oral morphine for cancer pain control
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- Chennai
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References
- [1] “Founder Members | Sr. Liberetta FCC - Sister Provincial | Sr. Cyprian FCC | Sr. Lalitha Teresa FCC | Dr. Udaya Mahadevan M.Phil, PhD (Social Work) | Dr. Manjula Krishnaswamy MS (General Surgery)” — Jeevodaya Hospice for Cancer Patients. Source
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